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EXPERIENCE + KEY LESSONS LEARNT FROM MY FIRST MARATHON (RACE RECAP)
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2024
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In todays video i look back at my first marathon and go over how the race unfolded, the key lessons learnt, what I'd do differently as well as review the Soar running race kit. If you enjoyed todays video please leave a like and consider subscribing for more running related content.
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Just decided I'm running my first marathon in Valencia, hope to se you there!
You are being such an inspiration
Having watched many elite / sub-elite marathon runners videos. What I have observed is those that take on 3-4 gels fade a lot at the end. Those that take 6-7 don't. All the expert sports nutritionists I've listened too also support the importance of this. But an absolute great and inspiring run never the less ....
That’s some good advice Glen and definitely something ill look into! I was pretty chuffed I managed to get 4 on board as in training 3 caused me a few toilet issues (excuse the tmi)
@@BenIsRunning you can train your gut to accept more carbs, practice eating more in your training long runs. Ultra runners need this skill as their events are part eating contests 😂
Brilliant race Ben! Such an inspiration! I had the same reflection re fuelling as well. Didn’t seem like you took enough onboard to sustain the full distance, but you know you better than anyone else 👍🏻
I think the biggest thing that I've found is that don't underestimate the importance of taking fluids on in the early parts of the race (before you get thirsty), even if you don't feel you need to. Better to err on the side of a little too much rather than a little too little.
An obvious caveat to this is that you'll be best advised to have an electrolyte or salt tablet with you and take around halfway.
Get fat adapted and you shouldn't need more than a couple. Build up to running 24 miles in a fasted state eating plenty of good fat they day before. Then on race day you won't bonk and your gels will feel like rocket fuel.
I was seriously happy to see you run such a great race. Also chuffed that you were in the elite women's pack. I think a sub 2h25 is in the cards for you. Great content Ben. Keep it up.
Such a fun couple of videos, thanks Ben! Super excited to hear you'll be running Valencia. It's the same date as CIM, which I'm targeting for my first sub 3. I've run my first two marathons this year, 3:00:50 and 3:02:55. 😭 Hope you have a Valencia series to keep me motivated for my own training. :D
Hey Ben, I recently discovered your channel and enjoyed seeing your Copenhagen build up and race. I was meant to be there as well but an Achilles issue prevented me from doing it in the end. Thanks for letting us see it through your eyes and experience a little of your achievements. I’m looking forward to seeing what you do next.
I love the takeaway about surging for the water bottles. Something you don’t really think about but a very key point.
Good running Ben & great review. Look forward to seeing a "2:25 Valencia" tattoo on your right leg 😃
It's been great to follow your journey and see the amazing things you are able to accomplish! Keep up the awesome work Ben!
Saving this one for the big screen. Just jumping on here to give a pre-emptive 👍🏼
Love that 😂
Absolutely relateable :) 3rd marathon done, 4th to come.
Ben - fantastic debut marathon. I was very impressed with your run, and especially with how you hung in through the last 7k despite the wall you found! Agree with you on how much better running with a pack is!
Good point on the gels by Glen in another comment, I was worried when I saw your Instagram post with only 2 gels. Glad you had 3 more in the back of the shorts.
Just remember gels are very concentrated and are designed to be taken with water. The upset stomach you have had from taking gels is pretty common (usually from the fructose in them), especially when taken without water. To practice gels I recommend doing it in sessions at marathon effort in order to get used to the logistics of grabbing, opening, squeezing into your mouth and swallowing (ideally with water) while having race-specific stress on your gut.
Matthew mentioned fat adaption, but I don't think it's anything for you to worry about. Long runs with water only + mileage you're already doing will have your fat adaptation close to optimal.
Just catching up with your content of recent weeks. What a fantastic result for your first marathon!
Great race vlog. So happy you enjoyed it so much and managed to hold it together in the last 7km. Sub 2:30h for your first marathon is mind blowing so I am sure you will manage sub 2:25h in Valencia. I will be running San Sebastián (Spain) the week before Valencia so looking forward to follow your journey and training tips. Congratulations again
Great race! But that water cup grab was butter!!!
Huge congratulations Ben, your marathon performance was inspiring. Love all your content but these videos have been particularly insightful and uplifting. Keep it up! ⭐
Great and honest analysis of your first marathon Ben, all the very best going forward
Thank you Tommy!!!
Great achievement Ben for your first marathon. Well done. Got Edinburgh marathon on Sunday
Well done Ben 💪.. Congratulations.. excellent timing and great tips
Great effort Ben , I believe your friend Phily Bowden is doing Valencia , also Ben Parkes? Oh and yours truly 😄
The music sounded like Raining Blood by Slayer. Great job!
Interesting, thanks
Nice recap Ben, very much agree with the 10 last k, everything of you telling you to stop but you gotta go dig in unknown places to keep moving fwd.. Unique and brutal experience, well done!
Congratulations Ben what a race 💪 keep up the vids and hard work inspiring
Well done Ben. Smashed it!!!
Metallica - Hardwired was the music at the start!
Ben you should also consider Košice Peace Marathon (Slovakia) It is the oldest marathon in Europe. 2nd of October 2022
So amazing to see what you're accomplishing
Thank you greenyelly
I remember I ran with you for a while and said:” thanks for the content”.. and here again thanks for the content! :)
It's so satisfying to have followed your training journey and to see you execute your race so well. Feeling flow state at 3:24/km is amazing. You really looked relaxed and smooth. A pleasure to watch and so inspiring. Sub-2:25 in Valencia would be fantastic.
What an awesome race Ben. I've just started following your journey on UA-cam and have been going through your older videos. Your progress in the sport of running has been amazing and I look forward to seeing where you go from here. All the best!
Good to hear you’re thinking about the next one already Ben and your reflections on how it went. Great achievement
Thanks Ben!
Good feedback and knowledge share Ben. I won't be doing a marathon anytime soon but it's great knowledge to have. And once again, well done!
It was defo good choice to stick with the elite women pack, gotta love all the content from your personal bike camera crew haha. Nice going as always Ben, these videos fire me up
Thanks Noel! From a content perspective it was totally the right decision 😂
I guess Berlin marathon is a rather good option for. Enough time for a proper recovery from Copenhagen and a marathon training block. Fastes track, great conditions referring to the season, and a great atmosphere!
Yes Valencia!!! Would love to meet you there. It’s an awesome course (really fast) and very well organised so I hear. Also, it’s a nice city if you have never been!
Congratulations on an awesome first marathon and great vid. You’ve qualified for Boston. Hoping you’ll register when the time comes this fall for April 2023. You’ve BQ’d with over 30 min to spare!
Thanks for sharing your experience. You had a great race and this is a great video! Onwards and Upwards.
Congratulations, impressive!!!!
Thanks 🙏
Congrats again Ben! I got the worst stitch 2km from the finish that day. I was guilty of over-doing the water, the sun seemed to be quite draining even though temperatures were fine. Didn't feel as fatigued as I have in previous, perhaps a combination of factors, the gels I had were ok. Only missed my PB by 14 seconds which was strange considering the struggle I felt towards the end. Good luck for the next marathon, target of sub 2:25 should be in your sights now.
Great run Ben - I’ve deffo done the surge for water on race day and will avoid that in future too.
Excellent videos of coverage 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 and an amazing time 👍🏻
Great race breakdown Ben. I'm doing Chelmsford Marathon in October.
Best of luck with your training
Wow great achievement
More strength work Ben and you will smash 2 25 next time out.
Race kits arn't cheap no matter the brand. Also that was a great series leading up to the race and the whole race vlog was great. Looking forward to future and more content Ben!
Come up to the Manchester area and do a parkrun Ben 👍
A certain Ben Parkes ran a 2:25 at Valencia a few years ago. Would be a great target to hit for your 2nd ever marathon 👍🏻
Great video, congrats on your accomplishment, can't wait for your future endeavors. And I am sold, I'm gonna get a SOAR Marathon kit. Ya'll Brits make amazing products, like the Brompton. Woohoo! GG!
Hi Ben congrats I'm shortly about to start training again for Amsterdam I'm looking for 2:50-3 hrs Mark, could you possible do a video on your nutrition/ eating while you train , even snack ideas? Thanks really enjoy the videos
Great video thanks for sharing. Yes it was “Hardwired” by Metallica. :)
See you in Valencia, going to be my first ever marathon attempt!
Awesome, see you in Valencia 🤞🍻
Huge respect 🙌🏻
Great race Ben! Really inspiring. Hope to see you in Valencia but you need to be quick, there are not many places left. Greetings from Spain :)
Great running, so much better than your Ultra race where you ran and walked.
Well done Ben! 👍
Amazing effort at the marathon mate! Manchester marathon has to be next on the agenda? Bit of a sunburnt nose there too pal 😂
Spotted you at Hackney Half on Sunday! Unfortunately I was hemmed in my pen and couldn't shout to you. Although you did run away pretty quick up to the elite pen haha! Saw you had a great race there too, really flying at the moment
Quality Ben!
You should come to the Sofia marathon(9 October)
I read this as “sofa marathon” and thought is this some kind of marathon where people sit on the sofa for 4 hours while eating biscuits and watching tv.
Great video 👍
MASSIVE well done, well deserved! Little strategic tweaks and you potentially were already in 2:24 shape in Copenhagen.....Full micro focus on Valencia and a 2:19-2:22 isn't out of the realms of possibility! Like you said about cost of the SOAR kit, you do the work, so why compromise on the cumulative marginal gains....In kit, shoes, nutrition, race focus AND EXECUTION, so i'd leave the camera with the supporters and micro manage the pace (You said same in vid re surging)......................On the SOAR kit...I've been after the marathon short and vest in a M size in a Black/Charcoal colourway since the beginning of the year...It is NEVER in stock and they have NEVER replied to numerous messages about potential ETA's ..... Probably given all the samples out to youtubers for review and promotion (tongue in cheek!) :)
You said the pace wasn't too fast. But the result says different. That's what's difficult about the marathon race. You can't underestimate the distance. If you keep it up someday you'll go under 2:20.
Great effort. Can you let us know what you feel your key training sessions were? Ie what sessions you feel made the most difference? Thanks heaps!
Great job again Ben! Have you thought about doing any races in New York?
what's your next race? also will you continue the parkrun series? you should try Victoria park in Belfast :)
My next races will be the Essex 5000 and 1000m champs
Ahhh such a tease! If there was one thing I wouldn’t do is….. not run a marathon at such a young age? 🤔
Great video Ben. Congrats again on the excellent time. How quickly do you think you could go?
Long term id love to be a 2:15 marathoner but 2:25 will likely be the next goal :)
@@BenIsRunning wish you luck!
Would you consider listening to music for your marathon? And if not, how come? The extra weight of having a phone put you off for example? I’m interested to know for myself in the future
music is fine for me i even run with my big ass loud LG phone and I put on fast music I do the same PR
I personally wouldn’t! I like to be able to hear my breathing and others around me to gage my effort
love your content but man invest in mic please! Would be much better!
First yes you guessed it
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"...three gels in the back pockets..." that's some real prison slang 😎
"passionate athlete's foot collector", what a colourful user name X-D
When I run a marathon (20 odd mins slower than you), my experience/rule of thumb is that if I "steal" 1 min in the first I end up paying it back 3 times over in the second half. Do you think stealing 30secs in the 3:07km lost you 90secs towards the end?
First of all congratulations on the marathon is a perfect finish time
As for your question ( 0:58 ) , I would suggest you to run the authentic Athens marathon, I just warn you that it has a lot of uphills. (Registrations is open) (13 November)
Great marathon man! But you fell on a beginner error..... starting fast and ending slower.
How many gels or other nutrition did you take? How often did you drink?
How did you take in salts? During my marathon I stuck with water + gels as in training, but due to sweating that would result in a lack of salts to regulate body water intake.
Maurten gels have some sodium in them to replace but yes also something to research and test! I would of liked to use the Maurten gel mix but unfortunately couldn’t get any water bottles out there
Saltsticks…a brand of chewable salt tablets (no salty taste)
Loving the channel.
But do you think you may suffer from a bit of tasch drag? Removing the tash may shave 🤣 a minute towards that 2:25? Well done.
I think that was it 😂
I agree - Henrik Ingebrigtsen never beats Jakob - same genetics, same training, same shoes, different tache. QED
what is the name of the shorts excatly please?
Excuse my ignorance as I’m fairly new to the channel, but why has it taken you this long to do a marathon? You’re clearly a very talented runner.
I hit real suffering about the same distance mark that you did in my first marathon this spring. For me, I'm pretty sure it wasn't eating enough. At only four gels, seems like maybe you also didn't fuel enough?
At the same time, I was only targeting 3:30 (did 3:29, just had to suffer a lot!) Maybe at your pace you don't need as much fuel? How do you think about that?
More fuel is definitely something I’ll be looking to work on! It’s getting the stomach trained as well as the legs 😂
@@BenIsRunning Likewise! I found that really hard because you can't replicate the need for calories in training without going much too hard.
@@BenIsRunning Just a thought on the fuelling, did you carb load enough (we saw a pasta meal on the vid)? Fantastic run though. Thought you might have mentioned the sun though, it looked like it was warming up there.
Ben, off topic question - How are you able to run with spectacles? Do you have some kind of special frame or something?
Nope just standard glasses!
@@BenIsRunning Wow! so doesn't the bouncing or slipping annoy you?
Glasses the fit correctly don’t usually give you any trouble. Running and light sports are usually no trouble for me, I guess I have to push them up my nose from time to time but I don’t really notice it. I even swim in pools with them on, they only fall off when things get boisterous.
Boston qualifier??? Congratulations
How the shit do you run that quickly? LOL My marathon time is 3hr 45 and I swear I couldn't suck enough air in through all the holes my body to ever run that quickly HA-HA
Probably using a go pro slowed you down.
Ben your pace is 3:30 in the marathon and you made a mistake not to go in a negative split 3:22 is beyond your average in marathon. Next time u will do 2:22 if you go negative split
Mistake? Let us know when you're able to to run a marathon in 2:28 😂
@@duhusker4383 I have 2 h 09 min keep laughing I can meet you any time smoke your ass no mistake!!
A great effort but, tactically speaking, perhaps if you stayed just behind those African girls and let them set the pace you might have had more juice left for the run home.
Great race vlog. So happy you enjoyed it so much and managed to hold it together in the last 7km. Sub 2:30h for your first marathon is mind blowing so I am sure you will manage sub 2:25h in Valencia. I will be running San Sebastián (Spain) the week before Valencia so looking forward to follow your journey and training tips. Congratulations again